To Everyone With '69 As Their Registered DUC Year

[Infa]

Ok,,, I just got to thinkin'. And all this time I was thinkin' , wow these guys been on the DUC since 1969 !!! .. Then even better I'm thinkin', WOW the DUC has been around since 1969??? !!!! -- And I know this is what a majority of us think about you veterens...

BUT, I just had a brain storm,,, and I was thinkin' to myself ,,,,, wait a minute, if Digi is having their 20 year anniversary, then that makes them obviously 20 years old, which means they started no earlier than 1984... PLUS that had me start seriously thinkin', and I was like ,, wait a minute, there wasn't even COMPUTERS in 1969 !!! So add those two new realizations together for myself, and I ask , how in gods tarnation did y'all register to the DUC in 1969 ??????

Please enlighten me and the other rookies to this, because I am sure I am not the only one wondering now .....


Thanks --

[InSights7]

I registered the first year of the DUC and before that Digi had a forum powered by AOL and I was one of the first users of that forum. For serveral years my registration date just said "A Very Long Time" and when they swithced to this server several years ago and dated all the registrations, all or at least some of the first year users registration date changed to 69. Go figure. Somehow the actual registration date was lost in the shuffle. I personally have been using Digi products since 1989. Some of my first Digi hardware had serial numbers 0007 and 0011. I guess you could call it vintage digital gear. I have owned every system that Digi has produced (except the Mbox). Cheers!

[Natural Sound]

That's correct. Actually, I believe that after the AOL fiasco, The DUC was under a different engine for that first year or so. When it changed over to INFOPOP, all the 'legacy' members got teleported back to 69.

[ripple FX]

"Legacy" member. Wow, I feel so...16 bit

April 1989 - Sound Tools with an AD-In and a DAT-IO ... first system in Indianapolis.

Those WERE the days.

Cheers,
Chris

[TVPostSound]

I was like ,, wait a minute, there wasn't even COMPUTERS in 1969 !!!

Just because you werent born then doesnt mean there were no computers in 1969!!!!!
Dont you remeber the Colossus (1941) Great Britain, and the Z3 (1941) Gernany

[Steve MacMillan]

I bought ProTools when it was version 1 (I ran it on a Mac IIci). Pro Edit and Pro Deck, you had to switch programs to go from the mixer to the edit page (and hope you didn't crash). I think I must still have the installer floppies. My basic four channel system cost as much as a HD core, and when you used a track for SMPTE you only had three. My 1.5 gig hard drive was $2000 and as big as a shoe box. Before that we used to use Sound Designer to fly stuff on and off of a 3324. I had been a staff engineer at Ocean Way (at the time it was the temple of analog), and they thought I was crazy. It was a small exclusive club then.

STeve

[jimlongo]

I was never registered on the AOL forum, so that has nothing to do with it.

I think it was either a computer crash of the forum database that caused the older registrations to lose their dates, or just a change in forum software that at some point didn't migrate the old dates to new fields in an updated database.

For a long time they just said "A very Long Time ago", then they were set to 1969.

[jimlongo]

BTW in lieu of a 35 year pin, i would accept a monstrous discount on my next purchase.

[Chief Technician]

Just because you werent born then doesnt mean there were no computers in 1969!!!!!
Dont you remeber the Colossus (1941) Great Britain, and the Z3 (1941) Gernany

Don't forget ENIAC.

[froyo]

Hello. Jim is correct. I believe that happened over a year or so ago when they made a major database software update.

I was also signed up in the very early days, late summer of '99 or so. I was one of the first few hundred members or so. However I created a login name that we could all use at the studio I was working in at the time. At some point, we forgot the password and login name. I then just chose to register for myself individually in March of 2000.

The DUC was a very, very different place then. Some will say for the better, others may disagree, but it was definitely very, very different.